I have an employee who has an attack of Bell's Palsy every four or five years. When it happened at work, it really startled me, because I thought he'd had a stroke. He was sitting at his desk, typing away, and all of the sudden the right side of his face became paralyzed. He couldn't blink with his right eye, couldn't close his mouth all the way and had no feeling in the right side of his face at all. He was out of work for 3 months, and even when he came back, he had to have his eye taped closed, with an eyepatch covering it. It took about 8 months before his face looked normal again.
There are different levels of severity. Some people only have slight cases of it. One of Mom's friends has it, and he just feels a tingling sensation on one side of his face, but his facial movements aren't affected.
Cathy
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